Letter from a grandfather to a grandson..

this was written in 2007-8 and appeared in an abridged form in moneycontrol ….   Hello, Congrats on the nice job you have got! With a degree from an Ivy League school this was a nice job to land. I know you have majored in Finance and are hoping to make money by the tons. [...]

Concentrated portfolio or Diversified portfolio?

Copying is very difficult especially if you want to be the first! How can you copy from the second best and be first? So that makes copying difficult. However you could take parts of many and look original…then you need not defend your copying! Warren Buffet made most of his money by staying and investing [...]

Trust whom?

The year 2007 was perhaps the last year of the madness cycle – with Ninja and all kinds of excesses. However the market corrected in 2008 and recovered very fast in 2009. The sad part is that the persons responsible in Eurpoe and in USA were not even brought to book – the Banking Regulators. [...]

A Million Dollars for Retirement?

One million Dollars used to be considered a safe harbor for most people. Becoming a Millionaire in the US of A, and becoming a ‘Crorepati’ in India were considered to be ‘Rich’. Today if you plan to live in the stupidly overpriced cities of India, you will be living in a house which is worth [...]

Mumbai Marathon scrapped?

A few days ago I had done a small note on Ayn Rand. She was a Economic Philosophy writer who found that US A had too much governmental interference. If you are a student of Economics you understand the word ‘rent’ in the correct sense. Rent seekers are those people who have been able to [...]

Currency Derivatives: What is it?

For the true blue speculator one more product is available – the Currency Derivatives. All brokerage houses now provide you with this new product – and is available with just a few clicks. So if you do not know anything about $, Euro, Pound, Jap Yen, ….you are still welcome to deal in EURINR (Euro [...]